How does the title "Translations" direct the audiences attention to the issues Friel is trying to raise in the play?

How does the title “Translations” direct the audience’s attention to the issues Friel is trying to raise in the play?


The play Translations, revolves around the subject of names and their relation to identity, culture, and the possession or dispossession that comes with naming.
Sarah, who struggles with saying her name, and consequently with establishing her identity, is silenced once the colonisers arrive.
The efforts of Maire and Yolland to understand each other were unsuccessful, because of the differences in culture embodied in language. In the love scene between Maire and Yolland, however, it is ultimately when they move beyond language, by reciting to each other the Irish place names, that the two are able to establish any real communication.
One of the main themes of the play is language and it’s cultural or political affect on the townfolk of Bally Beag. Translation from Irish to English is not simply an exercise with words - it is a forced corruption of ...